and his wife carolyn. >>> the ken dpi family is the closest thing to american royalty. the prince was john f. kennedy. from his salute during his father's funeral--a memoir of life, love and loss. rosemary joins me now. it's a very personal book, very moving. >> yeah, it is. >> in many places. >> yeah. >> tell me why you decided after all this time to write it? >> i had done an interview, a tv interview in 2009 about john's charity reaching out. it was the 20-year anniversary and i had been approached to do an article about it and i difficult and i started getting approached about the possibilities of telling the story of how we met, the girl from the bronx and the whole sort of mismatched friendship we developed. >> the passage where you hear of his death is particularly moving, you can't believe it, you refuse to believe it. people are saying how sorry they are, but you're determined somehow for it not to be true. obviously for the world it was a huge shock, for you personally, an incredible blow. >> it was devastating because it wasn't just about -- i mean, it wasn't